Kino and Nobumi, et. al, Your messages are never meaningless. We read them with interest and do what = we can to make the tool as good as we know it can be.
On August 15 2003, Nobumi Iyanaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Patrick, > >On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 08:04 PM, Patrick Gormley wrote: > >> Has anyone had success in writing a Perl macro that sends the selected [snip] > >My short answer is, no, unfortunately, no, I think I would be unable to [snip] >In Classic NW macro, this task could have been done most easily, with a >simple two line macro: >Find In Selection ":d+" "g-St" >Subscript Wasn't that beautiful?! [snip] >These impossibilities in the current implementation of the three kinds >of macro show exactly what we need so badly now: > >1. For the menu command macro: the possibility of writing Find/Replace >commands in the menu command macros. > >2. For the AppleScript macro: the possibility of "set selection to" >anything we would want; and the possibility of getting the offset of >the selection (both, or either in bytes and/or in characters). > >3. For the Perl macro: the possibility of dealing with the >selection(s) only; the possibility of sending the rtf data of the >selection(s) only, and getting back the rtf data of the selection(s) >only; and the possibility of getting the offset of the selection(s) (in >rtf data, and in text). > >4. And also, the possibility of merging all the three kinds of >macros... > >These are the most pressing wish list. I hope the Nisus development >team will read this message...! --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
